![]() The houses had common walls (Gode mane) possibly as a measure of security. ![]() ![]() The houses of each village were laid out in rows, each row facing the east. Let me write about Hethai Habba in a separate article. ![]() For the most sacred of all Badaga festivals ‘Hethai Habba’ - always held on a monday (sovara), the collection of money (Hana kattodu) took place at the suthugallu in an eloborate ceremony on the preceeding friday (belli). Being very environment conscious, they chose a) direction - always or to a very great extent facing the east and b) water souce - near a stream (halla) or spring (huttu neeru).Every hatti had a ’suthugallu’ (sacred triangular shaped stone) at the base of a ‘bikka mara’ (tree) around which important meetings (Kootu) took place. It appears that initially when the Badagas established their hamlets, they took two very important factors into consideration. Nakku Betta literaly means four (Nakku) Mountains (betta) though there are many hills around which the villages are located. Badagas, generally, refer to their village or hamlet as ‘ HATTI ‘ spread around ‘Nakku Betta’ (the Nigiris).
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